In 1909, the Nebraska Supreme Court invoked Territory of New Mexico v. Yee Shun to determine whether Japanese witness Jack Naoi could be disqualified because 'Japan is a heathen country,' according to Arif Dirlik and Malcolm Yeung in Chinese on the American Frontier.
Notes on verification
Verified against primary court record (Pumphrey v. State, 1909) and corroborated by multiple independent secondary and scholarly sources, including the cited book by Dirlik and Yeung. [tier=silver indep_score=0.85 clusters=5 claim_tier=notable | kind=attributed eligibility=high]
Sources
- Monument Marks Little-Remembered Case That Set Precedent for Asian Americans to Testify in Court (seed:law_and_crime)
- http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.asam.021 (corroboration)
- https://www.unm.edu/~toh/china/yee-shun.html (corroboration)
- https://case-law.vlex.com/vid/pumphrey-v-state-15-908598203 (corroboration)
- https://www.cetient.com/case/pumphrey-v-state-6775445 (corroboration)
- https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9815897 (corroboration)
- https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/chinese-on-the-american-frontier_malcolm-yeung_dirlik/14189320/ (corroboration)